Improvement in apparatus for feeding wool



PATENTED AUG: 23, 1864.

J. 1S. BOLETTE.

' APPARATUS FOR FEEDING W 00L, &0., T0 GARDING OR OTHER MACHINES.

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PATBNTED AUG. 23, 1864. 'J.S.B0LETTE. v APPARATUS FOR FEEDING WOOL, 650., T0 GARDING OR OTHER MACHINES.

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UNITED STATES JEAN SEBASTIEN- BOLETTE, OF GOFFONTAINE-OORNESSE, BELGIUM.

IMPROVEMENT lN APPARATUS ton FEEDING WOOL, &c., TO CARDING AND'OTHER MACHINES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 4.3.959. dated August 23, 1864.

To all whom "it may concern Be it known that'l, JEAN SEBASTIEN Bo- LETTE, of -.Goft'ontaine-Oornesse, Belgium, have invented a certain new and useful method of and apparatus for feeding wool a'ndother textile and filamentous substances into carding, combing, and other machines for treating such substances; and I hereby declare that the following is a full,

clear, and exact description of the same, reference beinghad' to the accompanying drawings.

This new method consists in feeding the wool or other textileIor filamentous substances by means of an apparatus which consists of a case, with the appliances hereinafter stated, into which the substance-say wool'-- is thrown. At the lower part of this case there isan ordinary endless belt, moving horizontally, and which "brings the wool against an reclined or vertical endless belt, armed with hooked teeth or blades. Theseblades carry .u'p the wool to a height level with the entrance 1 the short belt thereis a roller with teeth, for

the purpose of taking oifanyexcess of wool raised by the vertical belt, and returning it into the case. The vertical belt is calculated to bring up more wool than necessary to. in-

sure .a full supply to the short belt and a regular and continuous feed.

Figure 1 of the accompanying drawings is a-sectional elevation showing an apparatus arranged according to this invention and applied to feeding wool to a carding engine.

11' is a case, at the lower part of'whichis an ordinary endless belt, Gr, which brings the wool against an inclined or vertical endless belt, F, formed by preference of metal laths attache-(Ito leather straps, and armed with hooked teeth or blades. A portion of this belt is shown detached and on an enlarged scale in face and edge views in Fig. 2. The hooked .teeth or blades carry up the wool or other fiber-to a height level with the entrance to the carding-engine or other machine to be,

fed. When the wool or other fiber reaches that level, it is stripped by the roller D, (which is furnished with teeth and with leather,) and is thrown by it upon the short endless feeding-belt B, which delivers the wool or other fiber through the opening or mouth-piece O to the carding-engine. At the front of the short belt B and of the belt F there is a roller, E, with teeth fonthe purpose 3 of taking 011' any excess of wool raised by the belt F, and such excess is returned by the roller E into the case. aisa plate hinged to the case, andraised and lowered, as required, by a screw, b, to regulate the thickness of the supply to the carding-engine. f

Fig. 3 is a sectional elevation of apparatus,

also arranged according to this invention,

butslightly modified from that before de scribed. The same letters of reference indicate corresponding parts to those in Fig. 1. Instead of the roller with teeth D, Fig. 1, a shaft, 0, having combs or blades 01, backed with leather or other suitable riaL e, mounted on it, is employed. This instrument acts, as the roller D in Fig. 1, to

strip the wool from the belt F andto throw: it onto the belt B, and carries it through themouth-piece. In place of the roller with teeth E, Fig. 1,- blades f are fixed to a revolving shaft, 9. The shaft 9 is fitted in a block or hearing, which is adjustable by means of a screw, h, to any required position in a slot in the inside of the case H, in order-to regglate the quantity of wool supplied by theelt F.

In the apparatus, Fig. 3, the belt Fis carried over three rollers, in the manner shown, for the purpose of submitting the wool or fiber to the action of the combs d in a more inclinedposition.

It will be observed that in each of the arrangements shown in the drawings the wool or fiber which is taken up by the endless belt F is stripped'from it by a roller or revolving instrument, having teeth or heaters, and is thereby thrown loosely onto another endless belt, which carriesit into the carding, combing, or other machine, and it is this which forms the important feature of my invention.

Having now described the nature of the yielding matesaid invention and in what manner the same In testimony whereof I have signed my is to be performed, I declare that what I cla' "n name to this specification before two subscribis-- ing witnesses.

The method of and apparatus for feedin wool and other textile and filamentous sub BOLETTL' stances into carding, combing, and other mai Vitnesses chines for treating such substances, as herv l LEON GAUCHEZ,

inbcfore described. v HENRI TECHER- 

